The Best | With Leaf Grabbers, you stoop to conquer

6:49 PM,
Oct. 26, 2012

Written by

Carole Ellis
| Who?s spending more time upright

Our Beechmont neighborhood, encompassing Iroquois Park, is rife with huge, old trees. These are lush in the spring and summer, gorgeously color-laden in the fall and very much treasured.

Once a year, however, those copious leaves bring "groan time" when 100-plus bags are gathered to recycle. When this results in aching backs, we (very momentarily) dream of a new subdivision with no trees rather than this 100-year-old property.

Over 40 years, I have tried various methods of picking up large bundles of leaves with ...